Massimo Candela
Principal Engineer at RIPE
Netherlands
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Top SchoolMassimo Candela is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale tools for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing Internet-scale network data, currently driving platform and tooling work at NTT Ltd. He has a strong track record at RIPE NCC and NTT automating one of the largest Tier‑1 IP backbones and creating a globally deployed open BGP monitoring solution with 400+ installations. Massimo blends deep research grounding (PhD-level computer science) with hands-on engineering, having led projects like RIPE Atlas and RIPE IPmap that are used millions of times per day by operators. An active contributor to the network measurement community, he chairs working groups at both RIPE and LACNIC, bridging operational needs and research. Known for turning complex routing and measurement problems into practical, production-grade systems, he also brings entrepreneurial experience from founding web startups and leading small engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Università degli studi Roma TREDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
monitoring10
parser10
web-application10
topology10
internet10
whois10
targets10
evolution10
bgp10
network10
server-side10
javascript9
prefix9
dns9
nodejs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
massimocandela/bulk-whois-parser
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A parser for bulk whois data
Contributions:56 releases, 93 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 2 months
parserwhois
massimocandela/longest-prefix-match
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
A simple utility to do fast longest prefix match in JS.
Contributions:35 releases, 73 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 10 months
js
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